Does anyone know if there is help out there for COPD sufferers to obtain council property???

[Moutik]

[azaard]

Get touch with welfare rights or citizens advice they will be able to help you.

[stone-UK]

Hi

Apply to your chosen council, many do this online,

As you complete the registration form, you will asked.

Is the reason for your application health related.

Part of the form may have to be confirmed, by your GP.

This will place in a higher band,

Good luck .

[Gordon57]

But, be aware that they will not usually consider anyone who has their own home already. They may take an application but will not allocate enough points to be given an offer.

I went through this with a chap who had a 3 bedroom house, all his family have gone, his wife left him, he has several medical issues and needs someone to stay over with him at times, usually his daughter. He can't manage the steps so upstairs is virtually unused. He applied to the council and they said he would need to sell his existing property and buy a bungalow. They could not help him.

Medical conditions stood for nothing it seems.

[CouncillorB]

The first thing to do is contact your local council and get on their housing register. They will explain how to apply on medical grounds> The council in my area will rehouse people who own their own house if the value of the house is not sufficient to buy a bungalow etc in the area.

[Moutik]

Do not own a house, am renting a house with inadequate heating, private rental, sorry should have clarified....

[Hidden]

It depends entirely on your circumstances, the area you live, the council you are applying to, if you are already on the council housing register, how many years you have been on it, how many points you have already accumulated and if you have been awarded additional medical points. A note from your doc to the council may help, environmental health to assess your existing accommodation and deem it to be substandard property will give you extra points also.

You might find out some information from Shelter, the housing and homeless charity, just google shelter, it should come up in most search engines.

[Hidden]

I had a friend, as fit as a lop, and an OAP. She owned her own home but wanted to buy a holiday home abroad. She applied to the council for a flat and because she could pay the full rent there was no problem at all. She sold her house, moved into the flat and used the money to buy an apartment in Turkey. I have not seen her since the beginning of last year due to my husband illness but someone told me she spends 6 months in Turkey every winter. My daughter-in-laws mum and dad were talking about selling their home and dong the same and they are not ill, so you must be able to do it. Perhaps they want full rent paying tenants.

[CouncillorB]

Where I live owner occupiers can go on the council waiting list but they go into the lowest category of need unless they also have medical problems

[Lyn1969]

I know with my local housing (Wirral) If you have a medical condition they need proof via a letter from consultant or and occupational therapist.....myself I have neither! so although I have Emphysema and live in a flat that has mould issues, I am in the next to lowest band!! Check with your housing office as to what proof you need for rehousing due to medical grounds.

Good luck

Lyn x

[Moutik]

Thanks for all your answers, am trying the Green Deal route, to improve heating in this house